warrant for the common reader

After banning many books, when they come to arrest the common reader, he will not hold up his hands, rather he will clutch the book he’s been reading to his chest in the hope it will stop a bullet.

summary execution

The poet shot the common reader with the first line and then carried on.

necessary condition

If I was to be the ‘common reader’, I had a lot of reading to do.

alt audience

Her poems would only appeal to an uncommon reader.

mythic figure

The common reader and other mythological creatures.